Deafness Positively Cured by Five Minute Treatment
A five minute treatment purportedly cures deafness with quick relief to head noises, promising convincing results for skeptical readers after the first trial.
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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1913
Page
9
A five minute treatment purportedly cures deafness with quick relief to head noises, promising convincing results for skeptical readers after the first trial.
A mailed request offers free, obligation-free information on a new treatment and cure for deafness or head noises from Dr L C Grains Company at 973 Pulsifer Building, Chicago. It promises a free diagnosis if the reader replies.
For the 24 hours ending at 8 am 75th meridian time the belt shows unsettled weather with above normal temperatures. Rainfall of an inch or more recorded at Amite Rockhaven Jackson La Bartlesville Tulsa Madison Clanton Goodwater Livingston and Tuscaloosa. Allen Buell Local Forecaster Weather Bureau.
New York coffee futures hold steady with No 7 at 9 cents and September at 9.10 per pound while arch is 9.52. St Louis metal markets show lead at 4.22 and spelter around 5.20 to 5.22 cents per pound.
New Haven fell to a new low near 99% early today before recovering to just above yesterday's close. The market opened weak with many issues down though some like Biscuit and American Tobacco rose, trading was dull and professional, and bonds weakened while general prices declined at the outset.
New York reports lead at 4.20 and 20 pounds London, spelter at 5.30 and 15s, copper firm with standard spot to October at 14.00 15.40 and electrolytic 14.75, tin with spot 40.75 and 41.00 for months, antimony Cookson’s 8.40 to 8.55, iron steady and unchanged.
Money on call stayed at 2 2 percent with the ruling rate 2 percent. Closing bids stood at 2 percent and offers around 2 percent. Time loans eased with 60 days at 3 percent or 4 percent, 90 days at 4 4? percent and six months at 6 percent.
Arrived yesterday at Galveston Texas were the steamers El Alba from New York Russian Prince a British steamer tank and Tampico. Cleared was the steamer El Norte from New York. Sailed were the C A Canfield a British steamer tank Tampico Lucerne a British steamer Hamburg Rotterdam Denver New York Knockwell a British steamer Antwerp.
New York July 24 reports cotton goods markets steady and quiet. Burlaps firm as holders are bullish. Yarns steady while worsted yarns stay quiet. Demand improves for fine hosiery for next spring.
Observation recorded at Georgia location on Thursday July 24 1918. Details are fragmentary but indicate standard meteorological or measurement note taken in that period. The exact instruments, values, and observers are not fully legible in the surviving text.
The cotton bagging and ties industries report early season demand exceeding expectations and overstocked orders. Steel mills raised bagging ties by 24 cents per bundle, adding about 750000 dollars to handling costs for the 15000000 bale cotton crop, while Senators seek formal investigations into the price increases.
A dense listing of commodities with unit prices across fruits vegetables meats and canned goods. Includes egg and dairy rates, poultry birds, tomatoes onions cabbages lettuce melons grapes oranges lemons peaches limes bananas syrups and molasses, canned meats and fish, sardines and herring, and various fats. Prices shown per dozen, crate, hundredweight, basket, or gallon, with regional notes for Texas California and other origins.
Chicago reports favorable northwest weather easing wheat. September dips from 87 to 86 3/4 cents while corn and oats show mixed moves. Oats rise on active demand, pork and lard trade steady, pork futures around 21.47, 11.82 for lard and ribs. Corn slips on damaged Kansas reports, closes at 62 1/2 cents.
Cash wheat values show No 1 at 98 4 cents and No 2 hard at 87 88 cents new. Old wheat 89 89 cents, No 1 northern 82 98 cents, No 2 northern 91 92 cents, No 2 spring 42 6? cents, velvet chaff 69 99 cents, durum 84 90 cents. Corn No 2 62 62 1/2 cents, No 2 white 64 1/2 cents, No 2 yellow 62 68 cents, oats standard 40 cents.
Cash wheat and corn quotes listed for No. 2 grades with weekly close ranges. Wheat ranges show 81 85 percent for No. 2 hard and 81 percent for No. 2 red with September December and May futures at 81 85, 84 85, 90. Corn quotes include No. 2 mixed at 65 to 66 cents and No. 2 white at 66 cents with September December and May futures at 62 62, 58 60. Oats quotes list No. 2 white at 41 and 39 to 10 cents with December at 41 42.
ST. LOUIS report shows cash wheat and oats prices by grade with No 2 red at 86 cents for July, No 2 hard around 85 8 1/2 to 86 cents, and No 2 white about 66 to 66 1/2 cents. Corn prices read July at 85 cents and September at 68 1/2 cents. oats July 38 cents and September 89 cents.
Fort Worth market was dull and lower across cattle divisions with light receipts. Only 111 cattle, 118 calves, 2 horses and 105 hogs were listed at noon as buyers showed limited interest. Sheep at northern markets rose, cows topped at 5.26, calves 7, hogs 8.50, with the day’s tone cautious and prices softening overall.
Fort Worth cattle market July 24 reports 3800 cattle and 1250 calves with light interest. Steers and calves ease ten cents, stocker stock and cows down ten cents, beef steers mainly graziers, top $7.25 with 700 head on hand. Hogs rise a nickel to around $9.25 for a load. roughly 860 head of sheep and some lambs on offer, market nominal.
Receipts and quotations today show hogs at bulk 5.95 to 9.15 with heavy hogs at 8.90 to 9.05 and pigs around 8.00 to 8.50. Cattle receipts near 7600 with southern lots 3000. prime fed steers 8.50 to 9.00, dressed beef steers 7.00 to 8.50, cows 4.00 to 7.00, heifers 5.00 to 7.00. Sheep receipts about 6000 with lambs 5.50 to 7.5, yearlings 4.75 to 5.60, wethers 4.25 to 5.00, ewes 3.50 to 4.40.
Receipts today 8000 cattle including 4300 Texans with steady market. Native beef steers 5.50 to 8.75, cows and heifers 4.76 to 8.40, Texas and Oklahoma steers 6.25 to 8.00, calves in car lots priced by agents. Pigs and lights 7.25 to 9.50, good heavy 9.35 to 9.50. Sheep receipts 2500 and higher prices, native muttons 3.75 to 4.26, lambs 6.25 to 7.40.
Chicago July 24 receipts and prices for hogs cattle and sheep show mixed and steady values. Hog receipts 18000 with mixed $7.60 to $9.30, bulk around $9.35 for 1bgs tees. Cattle receipts 6000 with Reeves at $7.15 to $9.20, stockers and feeders $5.50 to $7.75, cows and heifers $3.70 to $8.40, calves $8.50 to $11.25. Sheep receipts 10000 demand strong, native ewes at $4.40 to $5.30, yearlings $5.60 to $6.75, native lambs $5.60 to $7.85.
License issued to T F Barrow at Crockett hotel for automobile operation marked under Overland entry 3874 with location Crockett hotel noted in records.
New York opened lower amid liberal selling of old crop months on foreign straddle accounts. New crops held near unchanged before rain rumors in Texas and Oklahoma triggered selling. By noon, July and August contracts slid 21 to 31 points, with weather expectations and hedging pressure from Wall Street weighing on the market.
NEW YORK July 24 Cotton futures started steady with July at 12.02 and August 11.53 while September 11.57 and October 11.36 held near. The market closed steady with mixed highs and lows across months and contract details showing values around 11.2 to 11.6 per cent.
New Orleans July 24 Cotton futures opened steady with mixed moves from yesterday. Cables lagged, rain in the cotton region favored moisture but spurred little selling. Active months rose early but could not sustain gains, turning lower as rains in Texas discouraged demand. Hedge selling and profit taking by shorts pushed prices toward the end of the first half hour. By noon, prices stood several points under yesterday's close, with the market showing limited direction thereafter.
New Orleans July 24 Cotton futures opened steady with July at 11.69 and August at 11.70 bid. September 11.46, October 11.42, December 11.41, January 11.45, March 11.61. Closed steady with a net decline of 4 to 21 points. listed daily highs and lows for each contract.
Liverpool July 24 spot cotton in fair demand and softer. Middling fair 7.244 pence, good middling 6.924, middling 6.64 pence, low middling 6.444, good ordinary 6.98 pence, set 5.62 pence. Sales 8000 bales including 7100 American and 600 for speculation and export. Receipts 1000 bales, no American.
Futures closed quiet and steady on the Liverpool market with varied swap prices across the year. Rates listed include July 6.38 percent and several forward spreads from July to June, showing small increments and minor adjustments through the contract chain.
New York and several ports report middling cotton trading around 12 1 16 to 12 9 16 cents. New Orleans spot shows 12 1 16 cents with 34 bales on hand and 427 receipts. Stock levels reach 32,762 bales as market activity continues in July, with various grades listed.
Spot cotton closed easy with declines from low ordinary to middling. Prices ranged from 8 4 to 12 1 2 cents per pound. Receipts totaled 915 bales. stock stood at 31 730 bales. sales, spots, and f o b unavailable.
New York on July 24 reports spot cotton steady to quiet with 20 points lower on middling uplands at 12.15 and middling gulf at 12.40. No sales recorded.
New Orleans on July 23 reports steady rough and Japan rice prices. Quotes show rough Honduras at 2.25 to 2.50, Japan at 2.50 to 3.25 with 3.25 being common. Receipts none. Sales list rough Honduras 3.50 to 4.50, Japan 130 at 3.26, clean Honduras 400 at 6.6 percent, Japan 3% at 6.
London markets close with copper steady at 64 pounds sterling per cwt and futures 64 17s 6d. Tin weak at 188 pounds 15s spot and futures 188 pounds 16. Iron Cleveland warrants 658 1/4d.
York July 24 Coffee futures quoted No 7 Rio at 9 9 for September delivery 9.24 and for March 9.72. Prices held steady amid light trade as markets awaited further cues from crop reports and export data.
LOCKHART TEX July 24 The first bale of cotton was brought in and marketed here today. No rain has fallen this month and cotton is opening very fast.
New York July 24 market notes show raw sugar steady with Muscovado at 3.04, centrifugal 3.54, and molasses sugar 2.79. Refined also steady. Petroleum and molasses steady, hides inactive. Leather firm.
Butter firm 23 26 cents, eggs up with 10,041 cases received. Ordinary firsts 15 17 cents, firsts 17 18 cents. Potatoes Easter 70 to 100 cents, 70 car receipts. Poultry alive unsettled with fowls 15 cents, springs 18 cents, turkeys 19 cents.
8ST. LOUIS, July 24. Poultry prices show chickens at 13 cents, springs 16 cents, turkeys 19 cents, ducks 12 cents, geese 10 cents. Butter creamery 26 cents. Eggs 13 cents.
In Memphis on July 24 prime basis oil priced per pound in cents, meal quoted at 31.00 to 31.50, linter 2 percent 3 cents per hundredweight.
In New York on July 24 the egg market shows irregular receipts remaining steady with no change in price or supply. Total receipts recorded at 18,258 cases as buyers and sellers assess available stock and demand patterns amid market fluctuation.
New York reports steady cotton seed oil with spot at 9.52 to 10.00 and futures for July to February ranging from 9.52 to 6.72. The record shows 22 000 total sales including large blocks in October and November and multiple rounds of third and fourth calls across months.
A letter from C F Stokes, Surgeon General, Washington, proposes a weed claimed to cure hydrophobia and various toxins, urging a trial by the Navy amid bubonic plague reports in Manila and California. The note notes potential, asks for evaluation, and offers to supply the plant for testing. Also included are timeless cultural notes on Swedish folk antidotes and a steel hydroplane built in Boom Belgium with its specs.
San Antonio hosts a civic harmony dinner on the Gunter Hotel lawn to mark the municipal bond issue passage and a new era of progress. Rotary and Automobile clubs plan lively stunts with a male female balance, plus a band led by Professor William Smith. Tickets must be arranged by 4 pm at the hotel.
Oklahoma faces a potentially record cotton harvest as conditions favor growth. Visitors on the Cotton Exchange floor included W. A. Buckley with D. G. Ridde and L. M. Potts of Chickasha. Buckley predicted production could reach about 1.25 million bales with increased acreage and favorable weather. He noted the absence of boll weevils and worm damage this year.
Quotations today show dairy items with Rutter creamery at 2 1/2 cents, firsts 25, seconds 24, packing 2 cents. Eggs at firsts 1 cent, seconds 10?0. Poultry includes hens 1 1/2 cents, roosters 9? 15 cents, fowl broilers 16 cents.
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